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On Jul 4, 2:25 pm, Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 4, 8:17 am, John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:49:41 -0700, "Ozark Bicycle" wrote:
> > >You're right! That's very important to the members of Team Wannabe.
>
> > What is it that causes you to have such an obsession with "wannabes"?
> > Were you one? Or were you a "nevercould" or something?
>
> > Please, show us a picture of you and your bike.
>
> There is nothing wrong with bicycle racing and racing bikes. However,
> it is silly to believe that a racing bicycle is the best choice for
> any use but racing or training for racing.
>
> Unfortunately, due to marketing and hype, people want racing bicycles,
> when they would be better off on a road bicycle with a slightly longer
> wheelbase, clearance for reasonable tires (e.g. 28-mm width and
> fenders) and slightly higher handlebars (so the drops are more
> useable). A less finicky 8-speed drivetrain is plenty of ratios for
> 99% of non-racers (especially when combined with a triple crank).
>
> Yet, go into an LBS. How many road bikes like this will you find (and
> how many shop employees that understand why such bikes are desirable
> and better than racing bicycles for non racing use)?
>
> --
> Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
> The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
The desire for racing bikes make sense. people join the sport for
fitness more than for leisure. The idea is that to get fit, you get
the equipment that will make you fit, and people wanna look like Lance
armstrong. so, they wanna ride what will make people look slim and
fit.
If bicycles were promoted for leisure, people woulndt get into the
sport that much.
On the otehr hand, I think the promotion of bicycles for fitness, ie,
what people consider racing, will lead some to reallize that leisure
cycling is a great thing to do, and eventually many will move towards
buying more user freindly bikes.
A lot of us who now are critical of the planned obsolence designs and
the hypper geek "we will make u faster" technology, started at some
point. Many of us started reading winning magazine and dreaming of
owning a sleek italian columbus sl machine with campy sr. after many
years we realized that an asian made bike with tange and ishiwata
tubing and 600 components made as much or more sense. Yet, we all
started somewhere.
I think that the big money carze into cycling is good. if people can
afford madonnes and are buying them, let them do that. there is more
cycling and more lbs now in my community than there were before. and
they are doing well because of the madones and all the marketin bs.
Andres
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jul 4, 8:17 am, John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:49:41 -0700, "Ozark Bicycle" wrote:
> > >You're right! That's very important to the members of Team Wannabe.
>
> > What is it that causes you to have such an obsession with "wannabes"?
> > Were you one? Or were you a "nevercould" or something?
>
> > Please, show us a picture of you and your bike.
>
> There is nothing wrong with bicycle racing and racing bikes. However,
> it is silly to believe that a racing bicycle is the best choice for
> any use but racing or training for racing.
>
> Unfortunately, due to marketing and hype, people want racing bicycles,
> when they would be better off on a road bicycle with a slightly longer
> wheelbase, clearance for reasonable tires (e.g. 28-mm width and
> fenders) and slightly higher handlebars (so the drops are more
> useable). A less finicky 8-speed drivetrain is plenty of ratios for
> 99% of non-racers (especially when combined with a triple crank).
>
> Yet, go into an LBS. How many road bikes like this will you find (and
> how many shop employees that understand why such bikes are desirable
> and better than racing bicycles for non racing use)?
>
> --
> Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
> The weather is here, wish you were beautiful
The desire for racing bikes make sense. people join the sport for
fitness more than for leisure. The idea is that to get fit, you get
the equipment that will make you fit, and people wanna look like Lance
armstrong. so, they wanna ride what will make people look slim and
fit.
If bicycles were promoted for leisure, people woulndt get into the
sport that much.
On the otehr hand, I think the promotion of bicycles for fitness, ie,
what people consider racing, will lead some to reallize that leisure
cycling is a great thing to do, and eventually many will move towards
buying more user freindly bikes.
A lot of us who now are critical of the planned obsolence designs and
the hypper geek "we will make u faster" technology, started at some
point. Many of us started reading winning magazine and dreaming of
owning a sleek italian columbus sl machine with campy sr. after many
years we realized that an asian made bike with tange and ishiwata
tubing and 600 components made as much or more sense. Yet, we all
started somewhere.
I think that the big money carze into cycling is good. if people can
afford madonnes and are buying them, let them do that. there is more
cycling and more lbs now in my community than there were before. and
they are doing well because of the madones and all the marketin bs.
Andres